Haunted for Two Lifetimes by My Crybaby Junior Brother

Senior Brother Shen Qingyue was peerlessly handsome, born into a prestigious family, and had always been the sect's great hope.

His junior brother, by contrast, was a little beggar his master had picked up on a whim while out for a walk after a big meal.

One stood atop the clouds, the other mired in the mud.

Yet the little beggar fell for the immortal-like senior brother at first sight.

He followed him around all day.

When Senior Brother was cold and aloof, he simply made his own words a little sweeter.

To avoid outshining his senior brother, he hid his rare, once-in-a-million talent.

But no matter what he did, his senior brother found him annoying and detestable, never once giving him a smile.

At the brink of death, his senior brother only had eyes for their senior sister and left him behind to feed the spirit beasts!

He died, without even a whole corpse left behind.

Yet by chance, he became his senior brother's sword spirit, remaining at his side.

He watched as his senior brother's status rose higher and higher, while the people around him grew fewer and fewer.

Until one day, his senior brother was abandoned by everyone and forced to leap from the Endless Cliff.

When the master died, the sword could not live on.

But no one knew of the three hundred years they had spent together, and the man had never known the depth of his devotion.

He couldn't accept it.

Perhaps Heaven took pity on him, for when he opened his eyes again, he was back three hundred years in the past, on the day his master had first brought him home.

But after three hundred years as a sword spirit, he knew that his senior brother was arrogant, cold, and loveless, and would never fall for him.

This time, he told himself to give up and hoped only that they could each live in peace.

But he didn't know that his senior brother had also been reborn...

Both are reborn. The section above is from the gong's perspective, and the section below is from the shou's perspective.

Shen Qingyue: Well, everything above is true. I won't deny it.

The author has a few more things to say:

The senior brother looks impressive on the surface, but his family is in decline. He's stubborn, proud, and all bark with a soft heart.

He was the one who took his junior brother's soul into his sword, making him a sword spirit.

He listened to him pour out his grievances, resentment, affection, and love for three hundred years.

His ears nearly grew calluses from it.

Yet he never let his junior brother know he could hear and see everything.

Otherwise... he could already imagine how that fool would react.

After being reborn, he only wanted them to each live in peace.

But how could they?

At their first meeting after being reborn, he recognized that his junior brother had also returned to the past, and panicked as he tried to keep his secret identity hidden.

He tried to maintain the same dislike he'd shown in their previous life to keep his secret identity under wraps.

But his secret identity was exposed anyway.

And then he was stripped bare, too.

Shou protagonist. The perspective is 70% shou, 30% gong.

Theme: If only life could stay as it was at first meeting